Maya Fluid

[Yannick]

Hi.
Is there a way to optimise a render of Maya fluid. Does anyone has any tips?

I currently tried the same scene with Mental Ray and it takes 20 seconds a frame, and with vray 1minute and 20 seconds.
I don't have any GI as that was making my rendering time way too long.

Thanks,

Yannick

[raymarcher]

Sometimes fluids don't need high sample settings, that is one area where you can cheat.

[vlado]

The default step size that V-Ray uses for the volume is way too small; add the extra V-Ray attributes to the fluid shape and increase the step size.

Also, installing the Phoenix FD beta will allow V-Ray for Maya to use automatically the Phoenix FD shaders to render Maya fluids, and the Phoenix shaders are quite a bit faster.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Yannick]

The default step size that V-Ray uses for the volume is way too small; add the extra V-Ray attributes to the fluid shape and increase the step size.

Also, installing the Phoenix FD beta will allow V-Ray for Maya to use automatically the Phoenix FD shaders to render Maya fluids, and the Phoenix shaders are quite a bit faster.

Best regards,
Vlado

Thanks Vlado, I will give the step size a try.
I am looking into getting Phoenix, i was invited to the beta but our IT department is too busy to install it.

Thanks,

Yannick